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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Capt. Paul Terry, one of the army's most accomplished young lawyers, must defend Brian McCarran, a general's son who recently returned from a harrowing tour in Iraq. In the high-profile court-martial, Terry is joined by Brian's sister, Meg McCarran, who leaves her practice in San Francisco to help save her brother. Before the case is over, Terry will become deeply entwined with Meg and the McCarrans--and learn that families, like war, can break the...
3) Sparta
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"[After four years in Iraq, Conrad Farrell returns to Katonah, New York], and he's beginning to learn that something has changed in his landscape. Something has gone wrong, though things should be fine: he hasn't been shot or wounded; he's never had psychological troubles. But as he attempts to reconnect with his family and his girlfriend and to find his footing in the civilian world, he learns how hard it is to return to the people and places he...
4) Persepolis
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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Description
Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and...
5) Lacy
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Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Cole Whitehall had asked Lacy Jarrett to wait for him. But after the war, he returned to the rambling Whitehall cattle ranch a changed man, the promise of lasting love replaced by a cold, hard distance. Lacy yearned to reignite the once inseparable couple's unquenched passion. Unwittingly compromised into marriage, the handsome Texan refused to come under Lacy's thumb. But the hard press of aching desire had her longing to learn the secrets Cole harbored...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
THE OTHER SIDE tells an unforgettable Vietnam war story from the point-of-view of two young soldiers on both sides of the conflict.
Private Bill Everette is a US Marine. His opposite number, Vo Binh is a fighter for the People's Army of Vietnam. These two young men have never met. They are not even aware of each other's existence. And yet, in the battle-scared country of Vietnam, fighting a war that no sane mind can fully comprehend, their destinies...
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